Partners: System News for Sun Users Vol 51 Issue 5
John J. McLaughlin
System News for Sun Users Vol 51 Issue 5: May 27 to June 2
Follow links to web site for a more detailed article.
Partners
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6774 SAPPHIRE '02 Orlando, FL
6690 Sun, Workscape and General Motors Employee Portal
6764 Strategic Alliance: Sun and SunGard Securities Processing
6753 Sun and Intraware SubscribeNet ESDM solution
6680 Galileo's GlobalFares Airfare-pricing System
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Partners
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6774 SAPPHIRE '02 Orlando, FL
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.07.all.w5.html#6774
SAPPHIRE '02 Orlando FL will take place on June 5 through 7,
2002. SAPPHIRE features e-business experts on supply chain
management, customer relationship management, e-marketplaces and
enterprise portals who understand productivity and bottom-line
results.
6690 Sun, Workscape And General Motors Employee Portal
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.07.all.w5.html#6690
The employee portal that Sun and Workscape designed for General
Motors Corp. has received the Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI) 2002
Best Internal Corporate Portal Award. The portal is called
mySocrates, and it is one of the world's largest employee
portals, serving more than 190,000 U.S. hourly and salaried
employees. mySocrates was developed from Workscape's Employee.com
product and deployed with the Sun[TM] ONE Portal Server (formerly
iPlanet[TM] Portal Server).
6764 Strategic Alliance: Sun And SunGard Securities Processing
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.07.all.w5.html#6764
Sun and SunGard have formed a global strategic alliance to
provide secure, reliable and open information availability and
transaction processing services. Sun and SunGard will collaborate
on the engineering, marketing and selling of targeted product
offerings to provide enhanced financial solutions for Sun
customers requiring operational resilience.
6753 Sun And Intraware SubscribeNet ESDM Solution
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.07.all.w5.html#6753
Sun has signed an agreement with Intraware Inc., a provider of
global electronic software delivery and management (ESDM)
solutions, to continue utilizing the Intraware SubscribeNet ESDM
solution to deliver software updates to its global Sun[TM] Open
Net Environment (Sun ONE) customers and to fulfill initial orders
of Sun software for select customers. Under the new agreement,
Sun will have the option to use SubscribeNet to deliver
additional lines of Sun ONE software products such as Forte[TM]
Tools, StarOffice[TM] software and Solaris[TM] Operating
Environment (Solaris OE).
6680 Galileo's GlobalFares Airfare-Pricing System
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.07.all.w5.html#6680
Galileo International has selected Sun as the processor solution
provider for the company's newly revamped GlobalFares
airfare-pricing system. Replacing part of its mainframe systems
with Sun Fire[TM] 6800 servers and the Solaris[TM] 8 Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) has helped Galileo reduce its total cost
of ownership by 30 percent and is expected to save the company
tens of millions of dollars in hardware maintenance and
programming costs.
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